10.15.2004
Criminals prefer timid victims
Earlier today, I was trolling around Kellipundit's site. She is a prolific poster, of true and unwavering devotion to the conservative cause this political season, and her posts often contain great links that I overlook.
Case in point: Steyn's Unpublished UK Guardian column. Mark took a rapier of truth and slit into the soft underbelly of modern British society. How's that for two metaphors? It's nothing compared to Mark Steyn:
The British publishers could not handle the blunt truth of Mark Steyn's words, which were directed at the recent beheading of the British ex-pat Ken Bigley at the hands of murderous kidnappers in Iraq, and of the timid way in which Bigley and his government reacted to it. Steyn concluded that the killers are emboldened to do it again.
A must read, this one.
Earlier today, I was trolling around Kellipundit's site. She is a prolific poster, of true and unwavering devotion to the conservative cause this political season, and her posts often contain great links that I overlook.
Case in point: Steyn's Unpublished UK Guardian column. Mark took a rapier of truth and slit into the soft underbelly of modern British society. How's that for two metaphors? It's nothing compared to Mark Steyn:
It reminded me of Robert Novak of The Chicago Sun-Times back in May, quoting “one senior official of a coalition partner” calling for the firing of Donald Rumsfeld on the grounds that “there must be a neck cut, and there is only one neck of choice.”
At pretty much that exact moment in Iraq, Nick Berg’s captors were cutting his head off - or, rather, feverishly hacking it off while raving “God is great!” The difference between the participants in this war is that on one side robust formulations about “blood on his hands” and “calls for the Defence Secretary’s head” are clichéd metaphors, and on the other they mean it.
The British publishers could not handle the blunt truth of Mark Steyn's words, which were directed at the recent beheading of the British ex-pat Ken Bigley at the hands of murderous kidnappers in Iraq, and of the timid way in which Bigley and his government reacted to it. Steyn concluded that the killers are emboldened to do it again.
A must read, this one.
// posted by HunterByrd @ 12:44 PM 
